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How Can You Fuck Up the World With Bad Financial Policy?
Americans are particularly bad about thinking about Hitler because he's part of our new refounding mythos. He convinced all these people to be evil with him, and that was what the hyperinflation was. People like to simplify it and rationalize it away as he's just evil. Like, I think if you took a character as evil's Hitler and you put him in a happy Midwest suburb, no one would listen to him; there's no reason to.